662
223
Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/silent-and-simple-ion-engine-powers-a-plane-with-no-moving-parts/
7 years ago
553
97
Thinking About Thinking (1999)
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/psychology-of-intelligence-analysis/art4.html
521
146
Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/amazon-admits-it-exposed-customer-email-addresses-doubles-down-on-secrecy/
466
372
Why Aren't There C Conferences?
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/11/21/
438
260
Slow Software
https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html
371
472
Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499843
320
64
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
https://github.com/karan/Projects
★ 47.6kMIT–7 years ago
303
248
Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
300
27
Learn Git Branching
https://learngitbranching.js.org/
281
165
Amp – A complete text editor for the terminal
https://amp.rs/
267
164
Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/417633-amazon-employees-bought-new-york-city-condos-before-company-announced-hq2
251
116
D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler
https://blog.thecybershadow.net/2018/11/18/d-compilation-is-too-slow-and-i-am-forking-the-compiler/
250
160
A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/20/how-a-small-french-privacy-ruling-could-remake-adtech-for-good/
235
154
You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True
https://www.propublica.org/article/you-snooze-you-lose-insurers-make-the-old-adage-literally-true
230
7
Fundamental Algorithms of Machine Learning
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiq2c85cle9ydb6/Chapter3.pdf?dl=0
229
152
Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down
https://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-dark-web-hosting-provider-got-hacked-6500-sites-down/
197
28
Concurrency Glossary
https://slikts.github.io/concurrency-glossary/
189
80
Video Games in East Germany: The Stasi Played Along
https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd/komplettansicht
170
56
My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy
https://www.brautaset.org/articles/2018/submarine-sonar-hiring.html
169
66
This JavaScript can snoop on other browser tabs to work out what you're visiting
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/21/unmasking_browsers_side_channels/
228
Wooden bikes
https://materiabikes.com/2018/10/24/why-wood/
157
19
CUDA 10 in Clojure
https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/CUDA-10-in-Clojure
40
How Our Relationship Survived When My Partner Got Sick
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a25225033/male-caregivers/
65
The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-19/the-triple-jeopardy-of-ke-xu-a-chinese-hedge-fund-quant
126
CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/21/cvcompiler-is-an-robot-that-fixes-your-resume-to-make-you-more-competitive/
136
38
4,000-year-old termite mounds found in Brazil are visible from space
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/cp-4tm111318.php
132
Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/opec-s-worst-nightmare-the-permian-is-about-to-pump-a-lot-more
57
Container Linux on the Desktop [slides]
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17Hml1iFqdXElxOcrh9caQSC5px5mDgaS015Vhaz42ZY
125
37
Dav1d: performance and completion of the first release
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2018/dav1d-toward-the-first-release
117
9
Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing
http://donw.io/post/sphere-indexing/
87
The EU Terrorist Content Regulation – a threat to the ecosystem and user rights
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/11/21/the-eu-terrorist-content-regulation-a-threat-to-the-ecosystem-and-our-users-rights/
91
The Ripple Effect of Death in a Hotel
https://lithub.com/the-ripple-effect-of-death-in-a-hotel/
107
162
I Can Be the Bank: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-decade-after-the-housing-crisis-small-investors-try-to-bring-busted-mortgages-back-to-life-1542734455
Apple iPhone Supplier Foxconn Planning Deep Cost Cuts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/apple-s-biggest-iphone-assembler-is-said-to-plan-deep-cost-cuts
47
Show HN: Easy-to-use curl command to send email notifications
https://curlmail.co/
25
Apple reportedly buys AI startup with privacy-conscious approach
https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/21/18106192/apple-privacy-ai-silk-labs-acquisition
106
96
Secure Boot in the Era of the T2
https://duo.com/labs/research/secure-boot-in-the-era-of-the-t2
102
26
Falcon Heavy Model – Flight 1 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQt-9SSJ51c
98
The World Will Be Our Skinner Box
https://thefrailestthing.com/2018/11/19/the-world-is-our-skinner-box/
4
How does a GPU shader core work? [pdf]
http://aras-p.info/texts/files/2018Academy%20-%20GPU.pdf
95
23
WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage system for use on bare metal
https://github.com/westerndigitalcorporation/blb
86
Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees
https://github.com/facebookresearch/asynchronousratchetingtree
81
20
Ask HN: What is a good book to learn about the network stack?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18506651
78
Facebook's Ads System Suffers Glitch Days Before Black Friday
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-20/facebook-s-ads-system-suffers-glitch-days-before-black-friday
73
181
American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/asia/american-killed-andaman-island-tribe.html
72
5
IBM's future system of the past
http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/
PG&E-friendly wildfire bill being prepared by lawmakers in wake of lethal fires
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/20/pge-friendly-wildfire-bill-being-eyed-by-state-lawmakers-in-wake-of-lethal-butte-county-inferno/
71
Reverse Engineering Pokémon Go Plus
https://tinyhack.com/2018/11/21/reverse-engineering-pokemon-go-plus/
70
60
High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/nov/20/high-score-low-pay-gamification-lyft-uber-drivers-ride-hailing-gig-economy
8
Mountain Gorillas Are Doing Better
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/science/mountain-gorilla-endangered.html
69
11
E-mails from Amazon regarding user's e-mails being disclosed
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/nice-we-re-contacting-you-to-let-you-know-that-our-website-inadvertently-disclosed-your-email-address-due-to-a-technical-error/429577/38
When having fun on Twitter went awry for Brent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-45901125
Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down